RMK Elistvere Animal Park awaiting visitors

In RMK Elistvere Animal Park visitors can see mostly the animals living in Estonian forests in as natural surroundings as possible.

Elistvere Animal Park, founded originally as a home for orphaned and injured animals, has now become a home for the descendants of these animals and also inhabitants exchanged from other animal parks and homes. The aim of the park is to provide nature education and offer possibilities to observe wild animals in their natural environment.

Our visitors can see the European bison, the Eurasian elk, the reindeer, the roe deer, the fallow deer, the brown bear, the lynx, the fox, the raccoon dog, the red squirrel, the pine marten, the European polecat and the European hare. In the building one can view guinea pigs, degus, hamsters, Mongolian gerbils, laboratory rats, chinchillas, laboratory mice.Rabbits represent domestic animals.Since wild boar still cannot be kept due to SAK, we are currently displaying Thuringian goats and Peking ducks in wild boars` fence.

Information about the animals is shown on information boards. Traces of beaver activity and varied forest biota can be followed on nature trails, with explanations provided on boards.

Elistvere Animal Park was founded in 1997. Formerly managed by the Estonian Forest Society, since 2008 Elistvere Animal Park is now part of RMK Tartu-Jõgeva Recreation Area.